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(MOdeL) H; M. ALBERT. PAPER BOX OR BASKET.

Patented Jan. 4, 1887.

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11. M. ALBERT.

PAPER BOX 0R BASKET.

No. 355,496. Patented Jan. 4, 1887.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HUGH M. ALBERT, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

P APElR BOX OR BASKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 355,496, dated January 4, 1887.

Application filed March 11, 1886. Serial No. 194,785. (ModeL) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH M. ALBERT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county of Montgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Paper Boxes or Baskets for Carrying Fruits, Oysters, or other Moist Substances, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My improvement-s relate to paper boxes for carrying fruits, oysters, and the like 5 and the objects of my improvements are to provide a water-tight paper box of straw-board with a thin Manila-paper pasted lining, loose only at the outside folds or laps, whereby the, two layers of paper are integral to form the inner wallsof the box, and the lining cannot be injured or torn in nesting the boxes for transportation, or pulled out from the straw-board in pulling the boxes out of each other. The straw-board is strong, admits of the use ofthe thinnest material as a water-proof lining, and is not liable to split at the bends. The two paper layers are pasted together only at those parts which form the inner walls of the box, while at those parts which form the outside folds or laps the lining is unattached to the strawboard, to allow it to be lapped at two sides with the latter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents the thin water-proof blankpaper lining; Fig. 2, the straw-board blank.

' Figs. 3 and 4 are similar views of blanks of different patterns. Fig. 5 represents the box in perspective, one of the folded or lapped sides being shown open; and Fig. 6 shows a vertical section of the box.

The dotted lines in the several blanks indicate the folds or creases and the full lines in the straw-board blanks indicate the cuts. The blanks being cut, the thin-paper blank K,Fig. 1, is placed upon the straw-board blank L, Fig. 2, and the sections a a B B of each pasted together across the bottom, leaving thecorner sections, 0 c c 0, of each separated, thus forming the two blanks integral at those parts which form the bottom I) and the sides a B of the box. The four sides a a B B are raised to form the box, while the four corner sections,

c,of the thin-paper lining are turned and folded or lapped in between the straw-board sections a and its corner sections, a, thelatter lapping on the outer side of the box, as shown in Fig. 1.

The bail of wire 0 is bent to form hooks f, which pass through the straw-board partsa and 00 at the folded sides and secure them together. It will be understood that the blanks are cut of the same size, that the thin lining isnot cut at the creases, and that the sections or portiops included within the dotted lines 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8, extending from the four edges across the bottom I), as in Fig. 1, are pushed to the corresponding portions of the strawboard blank, Fig. 2, so as to render them integral. This leaves the triangular portions 0 of the paper liningand the corresponding portions 0 of the straw-board unattached, to be folded and lapped to make a water-tight box, in which the lining is folded and lapped upon the outer sides of the sections a a of the strawboard, while the sections 0 c of the latter are lapped upon each other on the outer sides of the sections a a upon the folds of the lining.

I claim The improved paper box herein described, consisting of the straw-board blank cut to form the bottom,sides, and intermediate lapping cornerpartsofthebox,and ofaliningofthin-waterproof paper adhesively united at the sections which form the inside walls of the box and disconnected at the lapping corner parts, in

combination with a bail uniting the lapped presence of two witnesses.

. HUGH M. ALBERT. \Vi tnesses:

J AMES 0. YOUNG, RUDOLPH WOLF. 

